dropbear and inittab

Frank Meerkoetter frank at betaversion.net
Mon Oct 18 04:52:42 WST 2004


Hi,

i would like to have dropbear restarted by init whenever 
the server terminates. To implement this i've added
the following line to my /etc/inittab:

SS:2345:respawn:/home/frank/dropbear-0.43/dropbear -p 9999\
-r /tmp/rsa-test

mandark:/home/frank/dropbear-0.43# ps xauw | grep dropb
root     13305  0.0  0.1  1868  572 ?        Ss   22:43   0:00
/home/frank/dropbear-0.43/dropbear -p 9999 -r /tmp/rsa

Dropbear is running and i can login, but still there is a problem.
Init thinks that dropbear has terminated and tries to respawn it.
But because dropbear is already running we're not able to bind to port 
9999 and terminate. Successive attempts fail in the same way. In the 
end init gives up.

Oct 17 22:42:56 localhost init: Re-reading inittab
Oct 17 22:42:56 localhost init: Id "SS" respawning too fast: disabled
for 5 minutes

Dropbear was compiled with it's default options.h file. Configure ran
successfull.

Is it possible to run dropbear from inittab?
How can i fix this problem?

TIA Frank



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